University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Utah S.J. Quinney

University of Utah S.J. Quinney received 1,495 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 378 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 25.3%. 106 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 28.0%. The full first-year class came to 107 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 313.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 166, with a 25th percentile of 162 and a 75th of 168. That is 7 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 38 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.62 at the 25th percentile, 3.87 at the median and 3.94 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $34,721 for residents and $45,382 for non-residents, a gap of $10,661 a year. Mandatory fees add $1,108. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $38,078. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $84,568 for one year, or $253,704 across three, before any grant. 280 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 91% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $28,410. 52 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 90 of 95 passed, a rate of 94.74%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 84.88%, so the school ran 9.86 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 86 of 93 graduates (92.5%) held a job requiring bar admission. 7 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (7.5% of the class), of whom 4 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was Utah with 76 graduates, followed by Arizona with 3.

University of Utah S.J. Quinney has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1927. It is a public school based in Salt Lake City, UT. 1 first-year students left for academic reasons, 1.0% of the class. 3 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Utah has 2 ABA-approved law schools. The Utah guide compares them on LSAT median, cost and bar passage, and covers the state's admission rules.

Data: ABA Standard 509 Information Report (2025), published for consumer disclosure, retrieved from the ABA Required Disclosures portal on 2026-09-01. Bar passage and employment figures come from the same portal's Bar Passage Outcomes and Employment Summary reports for the class of 2024. Figures describe the 2025 to 2026 reporting cycle for University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and are restated in our own structure; no ABA document or file is reproduced here. Verify anything decision-critical with the school.

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